Willy McBean and his Magic Machine (1965) is a Rankin/Bass

Rankin/Bass

Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc. , also known as Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment, was an American production company, known for its seasonal television specials, particularly its work in stop-motion animation. The pre-1974 library is currently owned by Classic Media,while the post-1974 library is...

 full-length stop-motion puppet animation film released in theaters. It was also the first stop-motion animated feature film in USA

Professor Rasputin Von Rotten builds a time machine to travel into the past to all the important accomplishments made in history to take credit for them himself. Pablo, his talking pet monkey, takes the plans for the doctor's scheme and runs away. Boy genius Willy McBean finds Pablo and travels into the past to reverse Von Rotten's damage. On the way, he sees dinosaurs, the wild west, cavemen, knights, pirates, Indians, and cowboys.

Plot

Willy McBean is sick of trying to learn history for a school test. Meanwhile an evil scientist (Von Rotten) is building a time machine so he can go back in time and be the most famous person in history. A monkey (Pablo) climbs through McBeans window, he explains that he escaped from Von Rotten and he tells McBean what he is planning to do. Pablo stole the plans to the time machine. McBean builds his own machine to go back in time to stop Von Rotten. The machine isn't working properly they end up in the battle with general Custer, they escape moments before Custer is killed. They arrived in the wild west where they meet Buffalo Bill. Von Rotten plans to become the fastest gun in the west. Von Rotten asks Bill for a show down. Both guns are sabotaged before anyone can be shot. Von Rotten has failed so he moves onto his next target. Christopher Columbus. Von Rotten convinces the crew that they should mutiny. Once more McBean and Pablo stop the evil professor by showing the crew that land is not far off.

Cast and crew

• Directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr.
  Arthur Rankin, Jr.
  Arthur Rankin, Jr. is an American-born, Bermudian director, producer and writer, mostly working in animation.The son of actor , in the early 1960s he founded the film production company Videocraft International with Jules Bass...
  
  
• Written by :Antony Peters and Arthur Rankin, Jr.
  Arthur Rankin, Jr.
  Arthur Rankin, Jr. is an American-born, Bermudian director, producer and writer, mostly working in animation.The son of actor , in the early 1960s he founded the film production company Videocraft International with Jules Bass...
  
  

Voice cast

• Larry D. Mann
  Larry D. Mann
  Larry D. Mann is a Canadian actor. Prior to his acting career, he was a disk jockey on CHUM 1050 radio in Toronto in 1949. His best-known Canadian television exposure was in a Bell Canada series of commercials called "The Boss" in which he played the title role for ten years beginning in 1981...
  
  Professor Von Rotten (voice)
• Billie Mae Richards
  Billie Mae Richards
  Billie Mae Richards was a Canadian voice actress, who also appeared onstage and on television.-Career:...
  
  ... Willie McBean (voice)
• Paul Soles
  Paul Soles
  Paul Robert Soles is a Canadian actor and television personality.-Acting roles:He is best known as the voice of Hermie the misfit elf in Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964....
  
  ... (voice)
• Alfie Scopp ... (voice)
• Paul Kligman
  Paul Kligman
  Paul Kligman was a Canadian actor.Born in Romania, he emigrated to Canada where he spent his youth in Winnipeg and studied at the University of Manitoba. He moved to Toronto in 1950 and established his career there...
  
  ... (voice)
• Bernard Cowan
  Bernard Cowan
  Bernard Cowan was a Canadian actor, announcer and writer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He was occasionally credited under his nickname, Bunny Cowan, such as on the production Willy McBean and his Magic Machine....
  
  ... (voice) (as Bunny Cowan)